Chic Hecht

Mayer Jacob "Chic" Hecht (30 November 1928-15 May 2006) was a US Senator from Nevada from 3 January 1983 to 3 January 1989, succeeding Howard Cannon and preceding Richard Bryan.

Biography
Mayer Jacob Hecht was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1928, and he served as a US Army intelligence agent during the Korean War. After leaving the military, he became a banker, retailer, and hotel businessman in Nevada, and he served in the State Senate from 1967 to 1975 and in the US Senate from 1983 to 1989. He was known for his verbal slips and miscues (i.e. "nuclear suppository"); after he lost for re-election in 1988, he went on to serve as ambassador to the Bahamas from 1989 to 1993. He died of prostate cancer in 2006 at the age of 77.